Enjoy Your Birthday with Lots of Balloons

This is another masculine card using one of the images from My Favorite Things Old Friends stamp and die set. I also pulled out the My Favorite Things Balloon Bundle stamp and die.

I knew I wanted to use the Penny Black Immense Enjoyment Die. It is so large that you can tuck an image into the opening of the "o" and it makes a cute card. I had a leftover piece of green patterned paper on my desk and used it to cut the "enjoy."

The images were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers to coordinate with the color of the die cut sentiment. They were then cutout using the coordinating dies.

I wanted the sentiment and images to pop on the page so a quarter sheet of dark brown cardstock was dry embossed with an argyle pattern and adhered to a landscape oriented cardbase with liquid glue.

The "enjoy" was cut three times from dark brown cardstock and the layers were adhered together with liquid glue.

The balloons were adhered with liquid glue to the "old friend" to look like he was holding them. The images were tucked into the "o" on the sentiment and adhered in place with liquid glue. Foam tape was added to the back of the images and then everythings as adhered to argyle panel with a combination of liquid glue and removing the backing paper on the foam tape.

A secondary sentiment was stamped onto a scrap of brown cardstock and heat embossed cream. It was cut down with a sentiment label die and adhered below the "enjoy" sentiment with foam tape.

PRODUCTS USED:

·       My Favorite Things Old Friends Stamp and Die

·       My Favorite Things Balloon Bundle Stamp and Die

·       Penny Black Immense Enjoyment Die

·       Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

·       VersaMark Ink

·       Simon Says Stamp Ultra Fine Cream Embossing Powder

·       Honey Bee Stamps Sentiment Banner Die

·       Copic Markers: G46, G43, G40; E29, E27, E25; E25, E23; E13, E11, E01, E00; B0000; G46, G43, G40; W3, W2; Y17, Y15, Y13; BG16, BG13, BG11; YR16, YR15, YR12

·       Gina K. Designs Dark Chocolate Cardstock

·       Green Patterned Paper From Scraps

·       Limited Papers Accent Opaque White Digital Smooth 120# Cardstock 

·       Hammermill Premium Color 100# White Cardstock 

·       Simon Says Stamp Big Mamma Foam Tape

·       Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

·       Spellbinders Argyle Socks Embossing Folder